[giow] (3) Allow UAs to implement abuse protection in alert() and com…

…pany. Fixing https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=16100 Affected topics: HTML git-svn-id: http://svn.whatwg.org/webapps@7431 340c8d12-0b0e-0410-8428-c7bf67bfef74
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@@ -76573,6 +76573,10 @@ <h4 id=simple-dialogs><span class=secno>7.4.1 </span>Simple dialogs</h4>
 
    <li><p>Release the <a href=#storage-mutex>storage mutex</a>.</li>
 
+   <li><p>Optionally, abort these steps. (For example, the user agent might give the user the option
+   to ignore all alerts, and would thus abort at this step whenever the method was
+   invoked.)</li>
+
    <li><p>Show the given <var title="">message</var> to the
    user.</li>
 
@@ -76588,6 +76592,10 @@ <h4 id=simple-dialogs><span class=secno>7.4.1 </span>Simple dialogs</h4>
 
    <li><p>Release the <a href=#storage-mutex>storage mutex</a>.</li>
 
+   <li><p>Optionally, return false and abort these steps. (For example, the user agent might give
+   the user the option to ignore all prompts, and would thus abort at this step whenever the method
+   was invoked.)</li>
+
    <li><p>Show the given <var title="">message</var> to the user, and
    ask the user to respond with a positive or negative
    response.</li>
@@ -76607,6 +76615,10 @@ <h4 id=simple-dialogs><span class=secno>7.4.1 </span>Simple dialogs</h4>
 
    <li><p>Release the <a href=#storage-mutex>storage mutex</a>.</li>
 
+   <li><p>Optionally, return null and abort these steps. (For example, the user agent might give the
+   user the option to ignore all prompts, and would thus abort at this step whenever the method was
+   invoked.)</li>
+
    <li><p>Show the given <var title="">message</var> to the user, and
    ask the user to either respond with a string value or abort. The
    second argument is optional. If the second argument (<var title="">default</var>) is present, then the response must be

diff --git a/index b/index
@@ -76573,6 +76573,10 @@ setTimeout({ toString: function () {
 
    <li><p>Release the <a href=#storage-mutex>storage mutex</a>.</li>
 
+   <li><p>Optionally, abort these steps. (For example, the user agent might give the user the option
+   to ignore all alerts, and would thus abort at this step whenever the method was
+   invoked.)</li>
+
    <li><p>Show the given <var title="">message</var> to the
    user.</li>
 
@@ -76588,6 +76592,10 @@ setTimeout({ toString: function () {
 
    <li><p>Release the <a href=#storage-mutex>storage mutex</a>.</li>
 
+   <li><p>Optionally, return false and abort these steps. (For example, the user agent might give
+   the user the option to ignore all prompts, and would thus abort at this step whenever the method
+   was invoked.)</li>
+
    <li><p>Show the given <var title="">message</var> to the user, and
    ask the user to respond with a positive or negative
    response.</li>
@@ -76607,6 +76615,10 @@ setTimeout({ toString: function () {
 
    <li><p>Release the <a href=#storage-mutex>storage mutex</a>.</li>
 
+   <li><p>Optionally, return null and abort these steps. (For example, the user agent might give the
+   user the option to ignore all prompts, and would thus abort at this step whenever the method was
+   invoked.)</li>
+
    <li><p>Show the given <var title="">message</var> to the user, and
    ask the user to either respond with a string value or abort. The
    second argument is optional. If the second argument (<var title="">default</var>) is present, then the response must be

diff --git a/source b/source
@@ -89560,6 +89560,10 @@ setTimeout({ toString: function () {
 
    <li><p>Release the <span>storage mutex</span>.</p></li>
 
+   <li><p>Optionally, abort these steps. (For example, the user agent might give the user the option
+   to ignore all alerts, and would thus abort at this step whenever the method was
+   invoked.)</p></li>
+
    <li><p>Show the given <var title="">message</var> to the
    user.</p></li>
 
@@ -89580,6 +89584,10 @@ setTimeout({ toString: function () {
 
    <li><p>Release the <span>storage mutex</span>.</p></li>
 
+   <li><p>Optionally, return false and abort these steps. (For example, the user agent might give
+   the user the option to ignore all prompts, and would thus abort at this step whenever the method
+   was invoked.)</p></li>
+
    <li><p>Show the given <var title="">message</var> to the user, and
    ask the user to respond with a positive or negative
    response.</p></li>
@@ -89604,6 +89612,10 @@ setTimeout({ toString: function () {
 
    <li><p>Release the <span>storage mutex</span>.</p></li>
 
+   <li><p>Optionally, return null and abort these steps. (For example, the user agent might give the
+   user the option to ignore all prompts, and would thus abort at this step whenever the method was
+   invoked.)</p></li>
+
    <li><p>Show the given <var title="">message</var> to the user, and
    ask the user to either respond with a string value or abort. The
    second argument is optional. If the second argument (<var